Lionhead veterans form new studio Another Place Productions

Big Blue Box founders joined by senior staff from Fable franchise

The co-founders of Big Blue Box and creators of the Fable franchise have formed a new development studio, Another Place Productions.

Dene and Simon Carter sold Big Blue Box to Lionhead and Microsoft, and led the award-winning Xbox franchise to more than 12 million sales.

The pair left Lionhead last year, and are now joined in the new venture by former Fable art director John McCormack, Lionhead's technical director Guillaume Portes and the studios' executive producer Jeremie Texier.

The team said it intends to "create high-quality, meaningful experiences that will inspire audiences worldwide" and it focusing on digital formats - PSN, XBLA, Steam and mobile.

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It could also be that after working on a series for a long, very very long while the freedom to express can be desired...Perhaps its high time Lionhead made something new non Fable related to be refreshing, quirky, british and inspiring

Wait a minute -- this thread is turning into a love-in for some familiar old faces. And I mean *old*.

Hello chaps. Rather than bid you good luck, I wish you all the hyperoxygenated excitement and gut-evacuating terror of doing it all over again. History says that whenever you've made an exit from one tired project, it's always been a creative bonanza for the next.